OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #601880
MASTER MARINE, INC.
BAYOU LA BATRE, AL·
Event description
Employee drowns while SCUBA diving
Investigation abstract
While working in water with limited visibility, Employee #1, an unsupervised, un accompanied, and untended SCUBA diver, who possessed only entry level recreation al diving training, drowned as he was attempting to clear monofilament line from the drive shaft of a fishing vessel. The diver was using an inflatable dry suit , for which he had no training, without a flotation device capable of supporting him face up at the surface. Employee #1 drowned. Because Employee #1 was untend ed, his absence went unnoticed for about an hour before a search was initiated. The sheriff's office retrieved his body several hours later.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- LUNG (28)
- Accident type
- INHALATION (8)
- Source of injury
- WATER (41)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- INSUFF/LACK/WRITN WRK PRAC PROG. (18)
- Environmental factor
- WORK-SURFACE/FACIL-LAYOUT COND (13)
- Task assigned
- Task not regularly assigned (2)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.